Improvement in fastenings for belts



J. C. MERRITT.

Improvement in Fastenings for Belts,

N0. 130,816, Patented Aug. 27,1872.

With/ass as.

' J @JM? UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

JAMES C. MERRITT, OF WEST 1 o1NT, NEWYOEK, ASSIGNOTR T0 HIMSELF AND JOSEPH J. WALTON, 0E NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENINGS FOR BELTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,8 116, dated August 27, 1872.

Specification of Improvement in Belt-Plate Fastening, invented by JAMES C. MERRITT, of West Point, in the county of Orange and State of New York.

This invention is for connecting the Waist belt and plate in a manner that renders the connection very strong, but allows for rapid disconnection. The improvement is particu larly available with soldiers Waist-belts;'but

it may be employed With waist-belts of any character, or belts that require to be connected by a metallic plate or buckle.

Heretofore the Woven Webbing or belt has required to be sewed to one side of the buckle, or else its surface hasbeen injured by holes made by the prongs of the buckle.

With my buckle the surface of the beltis not injured by holes; sewing is dispensed with; the belt can be speedily detached from the plate for Washing and ironing, and can be reattached in a very few minutes.

Upon the back of the buckle plate or frame B are the lugs a a, the ends of which are turned over parallel, or nearly so, With the surface of the plate, and said lugs receive between them the slide-loops A and ends of the h belt 0. Each of the slide-loopsA has an opening, b, in it, and the belt is passed at the side of this loopthat comes next to the plate B,

and the end of the belt is passed through the opening I) in the slide-loop and the parts are slipped into place between the lugs a a, as Shown in Fig. 2, and the belt is between the plate B and the loop A, and the end confined by said loop in, consequence of being passed through the openingb therein. The ends of the loop A are inclined at 0 0 so as to Wedge between the lugs 00a, and small prongs may also be provided at the angle of the loop A to prevent its slippingthrough the lugs a a. Fig.

poses set forth.

JAMES C. MERRITT. Witnesses:

CHARLES A. PURDY, JAMES ARMSTRONG. 

